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COMBINATION TOOL.

No. 292,184. Patelited JanQZZ, 1884.

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XVILLIAM G. THOMPSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,184, dated January 22, 1884.

7 Application filed September 1,1882. (No model.) a

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combination-Tools, of which i the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to arrange a saw with a handle surrounding and proteetin g the blade of said saw when not in use, and also to make the handle of said saw serve also as a handle for various other tools which might be combined and connected therewith. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. '2 a vertical section, of a combination-tool embodying a saw and constructed according to my invention.

Similarletters refer to similar parts through out the several views.

O is a saw-blade, arranged to swing around a pivot, L, into the handle D, a groove, G, being provided in said handle for receiving and protecting said saw-blade when not required for actual use.

I is a projection on the saw-blade, with a depression in the same, to enable the party using the tool to take hold of said saw-blade with the finger-nail and to swing it from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 1.- It will be seen that after the blade has as- 1 sumed the position shown in Fig. 2 it is fully protected by the two cheeks forming part of the handle D, said cheeks having remained standin'g after the groove G had been cut. The whole mode of connecting the saw-blade with the handle is very similar to that used for connecting the blades of po'cket-knives with their handles. I

F is a spring resting against the end of th saw;' Said spring has a tendency and is arranged to hold the saw-blade firmly either in the position shown in Fig. 1 or in that shown in Fig. 2.

K is a metallic plate fastened to the end of the saw-handle D. It serves to strengthen said handle and to prevent it from splitting open.

E is a screwdriver, either fastened to the saw-handle D direct or else to the end plate, K. It will be seen that after the saw has been opened and is ready for use, as shown in Fig. 1, said screw-driver E is made to form a shoulder or support for the saw-blade O.

A is a hammer or head of a hammer, and B the head of an ax or hatchet, both attached to the saw-handle D.

H is a ring placed near the head of the hammer and arranged to slide over the partof the handle adjoining the head of the hammer.-

Said handle beingtapering, the ring H, after assuming a position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, will come to rest closely against said handle, the friction between ring and handle keeping the former in position. In said position the ring will then serve to further prevent the saw-blade from swinging out of the handle, which might otherwise occur whilethe hammer was being used to strike blows.

Various other tools might be connected with and attached to the saw-handle. v

I am aware that saw-blades have been connected with handles in a manner similar to that described above. There are, however, certain important advantages to be gained by using the device invented by me. The pivot around which the saw-blade is made to swing being at that end of the handle which is removed farthest from the hammer-head, it will be seen that in using said saw-blade the ham-. mer-head necessarily comes to rest closely againstthe arm of the operator, thereby steadying the tool and allowing the operator to make use of it in a more vigorous manner and with greater certainty of doing accurate work than could be. accomplished if a head of a hammer or hatchet were not combined with said saw asv I am also aware that a saw-blade has been IOO arranged to slide in a groove contained within the handle of a hatchet. and that a coinbination-tool has thereby been constructed embodying certain features of the device invented by me but it will readily be seen that such a combination-tool, holding the saw-blade in position when in use simply by means of a l catch and a spring, is not adapted to stand as vigorous use as my device.

I claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patent A hammer-handle combined with a ham- WILLIAM G. THOMPSON.

\Vitnesses:

WALDORF H. PHILLIPS, CHAS. J. SUMMERSON. 

